#corporatism — Public Fediverse posts

In one of the most blatant pieces of malevolent corporate greed I've seen, I'm greeted by headlines today that around 2500 seafarers are still stranded in the Persian Gulf, simply because the shipping companies they work for don't want to spend any extra to fly them back to their homes.

Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/

Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@akareilly/116220640483699920

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

#corporatism #fascism #discrimination #mysogony #rascism

"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."

https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism

#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.

#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker

This article contains some excellent resources at the end!

Towards #Solarpunk Futures

by BrightFlame, Jan 20, 2022

"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."

Read more:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sustainability/news/stories/solarpunk/

#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency #FoodJustice #RestorativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #NatureIsLife #BuildingCommunity #SocialJustice

This article contains some excellent resources at the end!

Towards #Solarpunk Futures

by BrightFlame, Jan 20, 2022

"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."

Read more:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sustainability/news/stories/solarpunk/

#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency #FoodJustice #RestorativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #NatureIsLife #BuildingCommunity #SocialJustice

This article contains some excellent resources at the end!

Towards #Solarpunk Futures

by BrightFlame, Jan 20, 2022

"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."

Read more:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sustainability/news/stories/solarpunk/

#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency #FoodJustice #RestorativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #NatureIsLife #BuildingCommunity #SocialJustice

This article contains some excellent resources at the end!

Towards #Solarpunk Futures

by BrightFlame, Jan 20, 2022

"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."

Read more:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sustainability/news/stories/solarpunk/

#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency #FoodJustice #RestorativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #NatureIsLife #BuildingCommunity #SocialJustice

This article contains some excellent resources at the end!

Towards #Solarpunk Futures

by BrightFlame, Jan 20, 2022

"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."

Read more:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sustainability/news/stories/solarpunk/

#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency #FoodJustice #RestorativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #NatureIsLife #BuildingCommunity #SocialJustice

#Trump Names 5 Cities as He Says #NationalGuard Deployment Will 'Go Further' [More like 'Go #Führer']

By Jesus Mesa and Jason Lemon
Published Aug 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM EDT
Updated Aug 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM EDT

"President Donald Trump called out five cities across the United States as he discussed his decision to formally declare a public safety emergency in #WashingtonDC, triggering a federal takeover of the city's police department.

"Trump's remarks insinuated that #Baltimore, #Chicago, #LosAngeles, #NewYorkCity and #Oakland could face a similar effort from his administration, with the president saying the effort to address crime and homelessness in the U.S. would 'go further' as he specifically named the cities.

"Speaking from the White House alongside Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth, Attorney General #PamBondi, and other cabinet officials, Trump announced 800 National Guard troops will be sent to the capital to 'reestablish law, order and public safety.'

"He also invoked federal authority to take over the Metropolitan Police Department, citing 'special conditions of an emergency nature' under the District of Columbia's Home Rule Act.

"The move marks one of the most aggressive federal interventions in local law enforcement in recent history. While the president holds direct command over the D.C. National Guard, governors typically control Guard units in their own states.

Trump has signaled he may extend similar measures to other Democratic-led cities, naming Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Baltimore as potential targets for federal deployments.

" 'We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad,' Trump said during the press conference on Monday. 'You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don't even mention that anymore there.' "

Read more:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-names-5-cities-he-says-national-guard-deployment-will-go-further-2111847

#IllegalTakeover #Gestapo
#Fascism #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#FascismInTheUSA #Capitalism #Corporatism

Trump says homeless should leave D.C. "IMMEDIATELY" — after floating federal takeover of capital

By Joe Walsh
Updated on: August 10, 2025

"The president likely doesn't have the authority to fully federalize the capital city — unless Congress repeals a 1973 law that gave the city's residents the power to elect their own mayor and city council. He can temporarily take over the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department if he 'determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for federal purposes,' but it's not clear that the legal conditions are met."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-homeless-should-leave-d-c-immediately-after-floating-federal-takeover-of-capital/

#IllegalTakeover #Gestapo #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Unhoused #InvestorOwnedHousing #UnaffordableHousing #Inflation #MAGADepression #CharacteristicsOfFascism #FascismInTheUSA #Capitalism #Corporatism

I trust #InternetArchive with government documents more than I do the government! (Or #AI for that matter...)

Internet Archive is now an official #USGovernment document #library

by Steve Dent
Fri, July 25, 2025

"The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, #KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. 'The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern #FederalDepositoryLibrary, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,' he wrote.

"Established by Congress in 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program is designed to help the public access government records. Each congressional member can designate up to two libraries, which include government information like budgets, a code of federal regulations, presidential documents, economic reports and census data.

"With its new status, the Internet Archive will be gain improved access to government materials, founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. 'By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries.' The Archive could also help other #libraries move toward #DigitalPreservation, given its experience in that area.

"It's some good news for the site which has faced legal battles of late. It was sued by major #publishers over loans of #DigitalBooks during the #Coronavirus epidemic and was forced by a federal court in 2023 to remove more than half a million titles. And more recently, major music labels filed lawsuits over its #Great78Project that strove to preserve #78RPM records. If it loses that case it could owe more than $700 million damages and possibly be forced to shut down.

"The new designation likely won't aid its legal problems, but it does affirm the site's importance to the public. 'In October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages,' Kahle wrote. 'And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an #EducatedPopulace.' "

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/internet-archive-now-official-us-123036550.html

#BigPublishing #Archives #BigMusic #CulturalPreservation #DigitalPreservation #WaybackMachine #Archiving #FairUse #Archives #Capitalism #Corporatism #FightForTheFuture #EmpoweringLibraries

"America's corporate titans are sitting at a giant table, in a roman-columned fortress just one block from the Oval Office, where their pal Jerry is now literally the 'leader of the free world', and somehow they perceive themselves as the victims struggling for acceptance.

Imagine Darth Vader and the Emperor at the control panel of the Death Star, lamenting that they're unpopular and have no power."

https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-4-the-task-force-that-took-over-america-2/

#podcasts #TheLever #MasterPlan #corporatism #neoliberalism

2019: #BernieSanders wants to tax companies that pay their #CEOs way more than their #workers

Bernie Sanders has a new corporate tax plan.

By Tara Golshan Updated Oct 1, 2019

"There are striking pay disparities between those in the C-suites of the biggest companies in the United States and the average workers.

"An average American #CEO at a S&P 500 company earned $14.5 million in 2018, the same year an average worker made $39,888. Over the last decade, CEOs’ average pay has increased by $5.2 million. In ten years, the average American worker’s pay hasn’t even increased by $10,000, according to the AFL-CIO labor federation’s analysis of the federal data.

"A new IPS study found only five S&P 500 firms had CEO-to-worker pay ratios of less than 25 to 1. More shockingly, 49 of the 500 largest publicly traded firms have a median worker pay below the U.S. poverty line for a family of four. The median 2018 CEO pay at these 49 firms is $12.3 million.

"Publicly held companies are required to file their CEO-to-worker pay ratios with the US Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

"These filings showed #Walmart paid its CEO 1,076 times more than the median Walmart worker last year — $23.6 million to $21,952. #JeffBezos gets paid 58 times the median #Amazon worker. The CEO of #TheGap makes a staggering 3,566 times what the clothing retailer’s median worker makes. These are the companies that would get hit by Sanders’s Income Inequality Tax. His plan would direct the Treasury to collect CEO-to-worker pay ratio data from privately held companies — and make it public — and also issue regulations around tax avoidance."

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/30/20890172/bernie-sanders-ceo-corporate-tax-plan-2020

#CorporateTaxDodgers #Oligarchy
#OilAndGasIndustry
#Oiligarchy
#Corporatocracy
#Corporatism #BerniesList

2022: #BernieSanders wants a 95% tax on #BigCorporations' pandemic-era profits to bring down rising prices

by Joseph Zeballos-Roig and Juliana Kaplan
Mar 25, 2022

- Sanders wants to hit all large firms with a 95% windfall tax on their revenue.

- Under the plan, #Amazon would have paid $28.6 billion in 2021.

- Its reach goes far beyond the #OilAndGasIndustry.

- Deemed a "temporary emergency measure," the tax would only be in place from 2022 to 2024. The levy would bring in $400 billion in just one year.

Sanders: "We cannot allow #BigOil companies and other large, profitable corporations to continue to use the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the specter of #inflation to make o#bscene profits by price gouging #Americans at the gas pump, the grocery store, or any other sector of our economy."

https://www.businessinsider.com/sanders-windfall-tax-large-companies-cut-high-prices-2022-3?op=1

#CorporateTaxDodgers #Oligarchy
#OilAndGasIndustry
#Oiligarchy
#Corporatocracy
#Corporatism #BerniesList

March 2022: #BernieSanders Floats 95% #Corporate Tax Targeting Biggest U.S. #Companies

New levy would mean up to 75% taxation on corporate profits

Tax would only apply for the next three years, as crises abate

By Laura Davison
March 25, 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-25/sanders-floats-95-corporate-levy-going-after-jpmorgan-chevron

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E5eIl

#JPMorgan #Chevron #CorporateTaxDodgers #Oligarchy
#OilAndGasIndustry
#Oiligarchy
#Corporatocracy
#Corporatism #BerniesList

#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023

"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.

"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'

"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."

Background: Back to Fairy Creek

"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.

"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.

"Until now.

"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."

Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html

#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy

@Blort
Many caught in the #dichotomy of #socialism vs #capitalism fail to recognise that the true #criminals enjoy the benefits of capitalism while offloading the biggest costs and #externalities onto govt.

#corporateCapture #corporateMedia #PPP #publicPrivatePartnership #google #amazon #alGore #davidBlood #elonmusk #billgates #lords #masters #philanthropy #govtBonds #debt #inflationPonzi #payForPlay #falsePhilanthropy #corporatism #cronyCapitalism #consumerism #falseChoice #falseDichotomy